I just downloaded Barnacle, and an error window of some kind keeps popping up. The message is in German, so I can't read it. It says "Fehler beim Erstellen des Fenster-Geratekontexts". Can anyone advise me?

Not German anything as far as I know. I have no idea why this German message popped up. It began when I installed Barnacle, and continued popping up every couple of seconds until I deleted Barnacle. Very strange.

As I said, I had to remove Barnacle in order to stop the error window from constantly popping up. I had downloaded Barnacle and was getting ready to move it to the programfiles like the instructions told me to, but I never got the chance. That's when the window started appearing.

Boo hoo! I'm missing out on all the fun. Could it be because I'm running win98se? If so, couldn't we make it work anyway? Maybe it's the way AHK thinks w98se can't see the middle mouse button (it can with intellipoint). I've downloaded the .ahk file but it'd probably be quicker if you did it.

The symptoms are: no errors (if it really won't work, there probably should be) no buttons, but the extra bar space is visible. no classid etc displayed after choosing 'show info'

If I really have to I'll look at the script myself, but I'm kinda busy trying to get my shutdown button to erase all those index.dat's.

@lanux128: I'm planning global buttons. No, toolbars are harder to control, as they are owned by the application. But it is doable...

@bliss: Does the extra bar change color if you tell it to? If so, it could be the icon loading...

All operating systems support GIF, JPG, BMP, ICO, CUR, and ANI images. On Windows XP or later, additional image formats such as PNG, TIF, Exif, WMF, and EMF are supported. Operating systems older than XP can be given support by copying Microsoft's free GDI+ DLL into the AutoHotkey.exe folder (but in the case of a compiled script, copy the DLL into the script's folder). To download the DLL, search for the following phrase at www.microsoft.com: gdi redistributable. - Quoted from the AutoHotkey help file.

This looks like a great tool for workgroup level administrative enhancements.

Can the Barnacle images and toolbars folder be placed on a network drive so all workgroup users can obtain access if they install the executable on their computer? What would happen in that scenario if a user didn't happen to be on the network. Would Barnacle cleanly abstain from running or producing error messages?

Does Barnacle work with Office 2007 programs? The 2007 version of MS Office changes the concept of toolbars and totally and precludes any programming of the right mouse button click menu. This would seem to be a viable alternative.

@phillfri: So far it's hardcoded, but I'll put it in the ini later. But the source code is available. Office 2007 has dropped menus all together, and Barnacle can't even extract the proper window dimensions. So there's yet another Windows standard down the drain... I'll look into this...

@ moongoon: I've not tested W2K, anyone got it working?

Just uploaded Barnacle v0.992, adding System Menu selection, for minimizing and maximizing and more.

This is way cool, I was able to add a menu to the Lotus Notes Designer.

But now I am going to be greedy. Do you think it might be possible to add a menu to a pane/class within the main window? This sub pane is recognized by SnagIT, which can highlight the frame and capture the full contents of the proprietary text editor within the NotesSubProg4 class by scrolling the editing window. The NotesSubprog4 class is also seen and highlighted by MS Spy++.

i am particularly interested in skrommel's work managing mdi applications and simulating an mdi in applications that do not support it natively. i assume that this could be used as a universal tab bar for switching between instances of virtually any program? or hell, i guess you could even collect non-related programs together in a single tab bar. this type of task grouping would be *very* helpful to me. i agree that such a prog should be released as a separate prog but maybe you could borrow a good deal of code from barnacle. skrommel, you are always amazing!